Tea cartridge



June 3 1924. 1,496,537

B. HIRSCHHORN TEA CARTRIDGE Filed Oct. 26, 19 23 INVENTOR ATTORNE ldatented dune 3%, lld da canons, or new a,

N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 PAT nonn- IN'G G0. ENG, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., A CGRFOMQN 035' NEW TEA CARTRIDGE.

Application filed flctober as, 19%. Serial Ito. QFthtfit.

T a all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN Hnason- HORN, a citizen of the United States, and

resident of the city of New York, in the flavor from tea-leaves or coffee.

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One t pe of these cartridges, described in U. Letters Patent. No. 1,310,796, granted to me on July 22, 1919, comprises a bag of textile fabric having its mouth drawn into folds, the mouth of the bag be ing closed by a metal strip, in the form of a ring, which engages and compresses the folds, in combination with a suspending string which is attached to the said bag in said strip. In making these cartridges obviously a bag must be formed from a piece of textile fabric on a sewing machine and ring forming machinery must be made use of.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a tea cartridge, in the production of which the sewing operation and the,

ring forming machinery is done away with, thereby greatly reducing the cost of manufacture.

Generally speaking. the method oimaking the improved cartridge consists in shaping a piece of fabric so as to form a bag like container, charging said'container with tea-leaves or coffee, puckering the mouth of the container. and tying around the said month one end of a string so as to'close the same. to the other end oi said string being attached a handle.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which 2-.-

Figure 1 is an elevation oil a cartridge constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view old a piece of fabric of which the container oi the cartridge is termed: Fig. 3 is a central vertical section taken through an apparatus and fabric piece, showing one er the steps of the method in making the cartridge; Fig. 4 is a similar section showing a furtherstep: Fig. 5 is a similar section showing a still hirther step; and Fig. 6 is a plan view quantity of boiling water,

of the inner end of the tying string ready for application to the shaped bag.

' In producing the cartridge, first a piece 10 of open-mesh textile fabric, preferably of square configuration, is cut from a strip (Fig. 2). This fabric piece is placed upon a female die 11, having a cylindrical recess 12, the bottom '13 of whichis, preferably, rounded." Above the die 11 and in registering position with the recess therein is slid-- ably arranged, in guides not shown; a male die 14, in the form of a tubular plunger, through which tea-leaves or cofiee, su fiicient for a single brewing are inserted in the bagshaped container, as will herein-after ap-' pear. The fabric piece 10 being placed onto the die 11, the tubular plunger is forced downwards into the recess 12 in the die 11, carrying with it thefabric piece, thereby shaping the same and forming a,contamer 15, as shown in *Fig. 4 ci -the draw:

'ings. A. quantity of tea-leaves or cofiee 15' (Fig. 4), sutlicient fora single brewing, is then inserted through the tubular plunger into the container, after which the said plunger is withdrawn. Gne endor a string 16 is then formed into a loop 17 (Fig. 6), preferably by a slip knot 18, and the said loop extended around the open mouth 1.9 of the container 15 (Fig 5). By decreasing now the loop in size, the mouth of the bag is puckercd, the decreased loop embracing the puckered mouth and secure-- 'ly closing the same. thereby preventing escaping of the contents.

For the purpose of facilitating the handling of the cartridge. there is secured to the free end of the string 16 a handle 20, for instance, of cardboard.

ln brewing tea or coilee with the improved device, the cartridge is taken hold of by its handle 20 and lowered into a pot, the free end oi the string and handle being permitted. to hang over the mouth of the pot, after which its cover is put in place. The cover holds thus the outer end of the string and handle ready for further operation. into the pot is poured a suitable either before or atter the insertion of the cartridge. ien sufficient essence has been extracted from the tea-leaves or codes within the cartridage, the pot cover is removed and the cartri ge withdrawn by grasping its handle.

It is obvious that, while herein a chic method has been described for makingthe improved cartridge, any other way may be employed without departing from the invention, which lies mainly in the provision'of a cartridge including a container of openmesh textile fabric shaped toform a baglike receptacle, around the puckered mouth of which is tied a string, the other end of which has secured to it a handle.

What I claim is 1. A device for extracting essence from tea-leaves or cofiee comprising a bag-like container die-shaped of a piece of open mesh textile fabric, the mouth of said container being drawn into folds, a string having oneof its ends tied around the mouth portion'of meats? said container so as to close the same, and a handle attached to the other end of said string.

2. A device for extracting essence from tea-leaves or coffee, comprising a die-shaped seamless bag-like container, the mouth of said container being drawn into folds, a

string having one of its ends tied around,

the mouth portion of said container so as to close the same, and a handle attached to the other end of said string.

Signed at .New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 16th day of October, A. D. 1923.

v BENJAMIN HIRSCHHORN. 

